Projects

My work seeks to facilitate a data-driven approach to enhance our understanding of the behavior of software systems as well as to build techniques to tackle their immediate, significant socio-technical problems.

FIU SECLAB research overview: four active project areas
Web Security & Agentic Web Attacks

We study how adversaries exploit the dynamicity of the web — from in-browser cryptojacking and survey scams to malicious third-party inclusions and AI-driven agentic attacks on web services. Our tools detect and measure these threats at scale.

Malicious Code Analysis

We build analysis platforms that generate semantically rich behavioral traces of malware, classify families automatically, and protect end-users at the OS level — without introducing perceptible performance overhead.

Open-Source Software Security

We measure how security mechanisms such as package signing and backup behavior work in practice, how vulnerabilities propagate through dependency graphs, and how attackers abuse trust in the open-source supply chain.

AI-Assisted Security Operations

We empirically measure AI-driven threats — from adversarial attacks on security classifiers to large-scale CAPTCHA solving — and build uncertainty-aware, multi-modal systems that improve defender agility in real deployments.